Roy Medvedev, who has died aged 100, was a Soviet historian and dissident best-known for his pioneering account of the brutalities of Stalinism, Let History Judge (1969).

“It was very striking to me the ways in which the Soviet past reverberated in the present,” Tyler Kirk said, discussing his his travels in Russia. “It was very present there.” Kirk, a tenured history ...

The World Socialist Web Site recently spoke with Stephen Wheatcroft, professorial fellow of Russian and Soviet history at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Wheatcroft is one of the world’s ...

The Second Italo-Ethiopian War and the Spanish Civil War offered Melva L. Price and her fellow female activists an opportunity to examine the links between racism and fascism Stationed in Lithuania, ...

Putin will lay flowers at the Soviet pilots’ section of Fort Richardson National Cemetery after his Alaska summit with Trump. The graves are tied to the WWII Lend-Lease Program, when U.S. and Soviet ...

TORONTO -- Audiences understand early on that "Red Army" is more than just a film about hockey. The documentary features plenty of footage of the Soviet Union's renowned national team scoring ...

Adopting principles of glasnost and perestroika, he weighed the legacy of seven decades of Communist rule and set a new course, presiding over the end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the ...

Last Friday, Russia’s prison service announced that Alexei Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption activist and the country’s leading opposition figure, was dead. On Saturday, his team confirmed the news ...

A pro-Kremlin lawmaker spawned a tsunami of scorn in Russia this week by alleging that Soviet rock star Viktor Tsoi's Perestroika-era anthems were composed by CIA operatives trying to destabilize the ...